Footscray

Welcome to the west. The vital community of Footscray is often reduced to lazy evaluations of cheap rent, cheap food and the impending doom of gentrification. Through a fairer and meaningful view, you will find an inclusive area where inner-city living is at its realest, as has been for a long time. In a short single block you can find a university, an Ethiopian restaurant, a new bar & gallery, an Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, an organic produce co-op and a DIY community space. A conflicting place, impossible to pin down in one paragraph. Footscray was built on the stolen traditional lands of the Woiwurrung and Boonwurrung people of the Kulin nation.

All photography by: Gianna Rizzo

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The Vintage Workshop

Address
148 Geelong Road126

The Vintage Workshop seems to be an under-the-radar stop on the vintage knick-knack and antique trail. A loosely arranged, if not downright unorganised warehouse literally FULL of “stuff”. Take a ride upstairs to the rickety mezzanine to see a dining chair graveyard and a view of the spectacular sprawl below. A high turn-over of vintage and recycled items means every visit leads to some treasure ending up in your car, somehow. To make a day out of your trip, they also home an upholstery business and is situated at the back of a diverse block of shops featuring a faux-meat grocer, a glitzy Indo-Chinese restaurant and a tombstone showroom (excellent band name by the way.) Who said Footscray was gentrifying? Photography by Gianna Rizzo.

The Vintage Workshop
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The Vintage Workshop
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The Vintage Workshop
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The Vintage Workshop
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The Vintage Workshop
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The Vintage Workshop
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Perfect Splash

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